Systems Engineer
Location: GB, LND, London
Department: Engineering
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Internet
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
Founded in 2010 by a team from Google’s London and New York offices, Qubit work with some of the biggest names in Online. Our engineers have built a brand new platform that combines a number of technologies – analytics, automation, personalisation and more – into a simple, easy-to-use product.We’re not the only ones excited about our brand new approach to solving the problems of modern e-Commerce. Wired magazine named Qubit as one of the top 5 hottest startups in London. We’ve raised $7.5 million in Series A funding from one of the UK’s biggest venture capitalists! Come and join the growing team as we embark on the most exciting chapter in Qubit’s history.Although we’ve now grown to more than 90 people, we’re keen on keeping our culture as relaxed and open as when there were only 5 of us. Our offices have table football, kitchen full of fruit and other snacks, never ending coffee supply, dinner service and lots of other startup perks. More importantly we’re a focused and determined team preparing to double in size during 2014!

Job description:
Qubit: Cutting Edge Big Data EngineeringQubit's in-house technology stack collects, stores and processes over 1 billion api calls per day, supporting business critical solutions for some of the world’s largest e-commerce companies. Our core systems run the gamut of everything from high performance ingestion and change management systems, dynamic schema management to machine learning and categorization systems and large scale indexing and in-memory aggregation / querying engines.You’ll be working on the cutting edge infrastructure that supports Qubit’s high performance technology stack.We’ve built and deployed a hybrid cloud and dedicated hardware platform that allows our applications to dynamically leverage the benefits of both approaches. As a Sys Ops engineer, you’ll be working closely with our application development teams deploy and scale.What you will be doingWorking to develop, maintain and continuously expand our globally distributed hybrid cloud/dedicated systems and infrastructure.Speccing, tuning and on-lining our rapidly expanding fleet of dedicated hardwareMaintaining development and production infrastructure: both in-house servers and EC2.Creating smart modules that programmatically control our servers and performance.Providing input into scalability, security, monitoring and deployment of applications.Network and systems administration tuning and configuration tasks on both our production infrastructure and internal networks.

Requirements:
What you will need3+ years experience as a Systems / Network Administrator or Systems Engineer.Previous experience with distributed system platforms and multi-tenant hosted environments.Experience in automated setup, administration, scripting and coding in Linux or Unix.Proficiency with network protocols, NFS, DNS, routing and administration.The ability to write code in one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, Shell Scripting.

Benefits:
Plenty of perksAs well as the opportunity to solve complex problems in this exciting new era of big data, here’s what we offer:Realistic performance related bonusesGenerous equity options mean you’ll own a piece of the pieExcellent health and dental insurance packagesA relaxed approach to time off and enough holidays to see several corners of the worldFridge fully stocked with healthy snacks and the ultimate espresso machine for your java fixA competitive office where we play foosball, football, scrabble, go-karting… you name it, we’ll play itThank Qubit it’s Friday – we have lots of creative ways to let off steam at the end of the weekPlenty of opportunities for training and development